This site is an expanded and significantly upgraded version of the Flickr Commons based tool I wrote several years ago. As well as a major design/UX overhaul, it now includes data from further providers such as those available through Europeana, and also the Imperial War Museum. I'd welcome further suggestions as the harvesting tool and database are easily extendable.
For information, questions and bug reports please contact James Morley @jamesinealing | james@jamesmorley.net
The data has been harvested from providers using some custom php scripts to query respective APIs based on dates. Data is harmonised and stored in a local mySql database.
Additional jQuery plugins are used to enhance the display, including Masonry and Bootstrap Image Gallery (based on blueimp).
The code is openly licensed so please feel free to copy, modify, distribute as you please. It will be shared on Github shortly!
'Barham' (1811). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile with some external detail for 'Barham' (1811), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as cut down to a 50-gun Fourth Rate Frigate at Woolwich Dockyard. The plan includes altera
19 January 1827
National Maritime Museum
'Barham' (1811). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the orlop platform with fore & aft plaforms for 'Barham' (1811), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as cut down to a 50-gun Fourth Rate Frigate at Woolwich Dockyard.
Signed by Oliver Lang
19 January 1827
National Maritime Museum
'Barham' (1811). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for 'Barham' (1811), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as cut down to a 50-gun Fourth Rate Frigate at Woolwich Dockyard. This deck used to the lower deck when she was a 74-gun
19 January 1827
National Maritime Museum
'Caledonia' (1808); 'Saint George' (1840); 'Neptune' (1832). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for 'Saint George' (1840) building at Plymouth Dockyard, and for the 'Caledonia' (1808), repairing
20 June 1827
National Maritime Museum
'Rodney' (1833). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the half stern framing for 'Rodney' (1833), a 92-gun Second Rate, two-decker. The plan illustrates the timbers required for the circular stern.
Initialled by Robert Seppings [Surveyor of the N
22 December 1827
National Maritime Museum
Barham (1811). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for 'Barham' (1811), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as cut down to a 50-gun Fourth Rate Frigate at Woolwich Dockyard.
Signed by Oliver Lang [Master Shpwright, Woolwich Dockyard, 18
19 January 1827
National Maritime Museum
Calcutta (1831). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth proposed (and approved) for Calcutta (1831), an 80-gun, Second Rate, two-decker. A copy was sent to Bombay on 31 October 1827.
Signed by Robert Seppings
3 October 1827
National Maritime Museum
Daphne (cancelled 1832) and Porcupine (cancelled 1832). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile plan for Daphne (cancelled 1832) and Porcupine (cancelled 1832), both 28-gun, Sixth Rate Sloops. Signed R[obert] Seppimgs (Surveyor of the Navy)
28th June 1827
National Maritime Museum
Daphne (cancelled 1832), Porcupine (cancelled 1832). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the lower deck plan with platforms, for building Daphne (cancelled 1832) and Porcupine (cancelled 1832), both 28-gun, Sixth Rate Sloops, at Plymouth Dockyard. The pan also has a
28th June 1827
National Maritime Museum
Tyne (1826), Alarm (cancelled 1832), Conway (1832), Imogene (1831). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the stern quater galleries for ships similar to Tyne (1826), Alarm (cancelled 1832), Conway (1832), Imogene (1831), all 28-gun, Sixth Rate vessel.
circa. February 1827
National Maritime Museum
Tyne (1826). Scale 1:48. Plan showing hold and sections illustrating the distribution of ballast and stowage for Tyne (1826), a 28-gun, Sixth Rate vessel in the second Experimental Cruise 14th June 1827. Ballast has colour code reference.
NMM, Progess Bo
Circa June 1827
National Maritime Museum
Tyne (1826). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the hold section, illustrating the ballast layout for July 1828 for Tyne (1826), a 28-gun, Sixth Rate vessel. The plan includes a table of weight for tanks, cables, and anchors.
NMM, Progess Book, volume 6, folio 54
circa July 1828
National Maritime Museum
Waterloo (fl.1827). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, ticked outline of the stern board, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for Waterloo (fl.1827), an 82-gun Second Rate, two-decker belonging to 'His Netherlands Majesty'.
Signed
24 April 1827
National Maritime Museum
Proposed iron nippers on chain cables (1827). Scale: 1:3 and 1:24. Plan showing the elevation of the fore part of a flush-deck 18-gun Sloop illustrating the use of the iron nippers on the chain cables, and a diagram of the nipper open, closed, and in sec
20 February 1827
National Maritime Museum
Ballast for a 60 gun Frigate; Winchester (1822). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing a part plan of the hold for a 60-gun Frigate, similar to the Winchester (1822), a 60-gun, Fourth Rate Frigate, illustrating the stowage of ballast. Plan includes a code of explan
March 1827
National Maritime Museum
Tyne (1826). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile plan for Tyne (1826), a 28-gun Sixth Rate vessel built and fitted at Woolwich Dockyard. Signed O.Lang (Master Shipwright)
14 April 1827
National Maritime Museum
Tyne (1826). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the lower deck plan, showing the fore & aft platforms for Tyne (1826), as a 28-gun, Sixth Rate vessel as built and fitted at Woolwich Dockyard. Signed O.Lang (Master Shipwright)
14th April 1827
National Maritime Museum
Tyne (1826). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the quater deck and forecastle for Tyne (1826), as a 28-gun, Sixth Rate vessel as built and fitted at Woolwich Dockyard. Signed O.Lang (Master Shipwright)
14th April 1827
National Maritime Museum
Tyne (1826). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck plan for Tyne (1826), as a 28-gun, Sixth Rate vessel as built and fitted at Woolwich Dockyard. Signed O.Lang (Master Shipwright)
14th April 1827
National Maritime Museum
'Revenge' (1805). Scale: 1:120. Plan showing the ballast and ground tier, and the middle and upper tier of the hoild for 'Revenge' (1805), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker. The plan illustrates the way the method of stowage compensated
10 May 1827
National Maritime Museum